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2 Chronicles 26:13
“And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5921 · Hebrew
- Definition
- above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- Derivation
- properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following);
- KJV renderings
- above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- עַל — preposition
- Usage
- Occurs 5,781 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:2Genesis 1:7Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.